Help Needed With Measuring Up

[mickmcc]

Hi, Im Going To Measure Up 2nite For 4walls And A Floor Which Leads Into A Hallway 2nite, And I Need Some Help Measuring Up, Just Last Time I Ended Up A Box Of Tiles Short And It Came Out Of My Own Pocket Could Someone Just Give Me Some Pointers As Im Not 100% Confident Anymore, And Please Go Back To Basics If U Must.

 

[Varley]

When measuring your walls overshoot your measurements by around 5cm. Take a large spirirt level with you to chek the walls. When you have all your measurements I then add around 12% onto the total for waste, but if you are falling short then add 15%. Basically make sure you have too many tiles as the customer can nearly always return un-opened boxes that are not used (unless they are special order).

 

[GazTech]

Treat every wall and floor as a seperate box...ie wall is 2m x 2m. Multiply them and add 10/12%. therefore 2m x 2m = 4m2 add 10% = .4m = 4.4 m2......allow that wall 4.5m2.....do the same with each wall and floor......Gaz

 

[smokie899]

i find the best way is to measure each wall and mutliply height by width in inches then divide by nine that will give you square yards. and if you want then mutliply your square yards by 0.8361 that gives you square meters. and my self presonaly iwill round some .0 figuers off to the higher figure that allows for cuts,as for windows and baths you can do the same measurments and sums yhen subtract from total yards/meters and that is your quantity. here is a one wall example 121"x95"=11495.\ 9=1277.22222rond of to 13sq yards 13 x 0.8361=10.8693 sq meters sounds complicated it not in your dairy that you have for booking jobs just write. multiply height by width divide by nine=sq yards. sq yards mutliplyed by 0.8361=sq meters hope it helps dont knock your confidence it is a learning process

 

[grumpygrouter]

i find the best way is to measure each wall and mutliply height by width in inches then divide by nine that will give you square yards. and if you want then mutliply your square yards by 0.8361 that gives you square meters. and my self presonaly iwill round some .0 figuers off to the higher figure that allows for cuts,as for windows and baths you can do the same measurments and sums yhen subtract from total yards/meters and that is your quantity. here is a one wall example 121"x95"=11495.\ 9=1277.22222rond of to 13sq yards 13 x 0.8361=10.8693 sq meters sounds complicated it not in your dairy that you have for booking jobs just write. multiply height by width divide by nine=sq yards. sq yards mutliplyed by 0.8361=sq meters hope it helps dont knock your confidence it is a learning process

Do you not use a metric tape Smokie? Seems a bit convoluted to me.

Grumpy

 

[GazTech]

Do you not use a metric tape Smokie? Seems a bit convoluted to me.

Grumpy

I'm a tiler not a mathematician...lol

 

[grumpygrouter]

I'm a tiler not a mathematician...lol

You talking about Smokies' method Gaz or using a metric tape?

Grumps

 

[GazTech]

You talking about Smokies' method Gaz or using a metric tape?

Grumps

Smokies method...very difficult to wrap my head around....metric is just counting in single digits...very basic maths......keep it easy....Gaz

 

[grumpygrouter]

Smokies method...very difficult to wrap my head around....metric is just counting in single digits...very basic maths......keep it easy....Gaz

Me too, and I am used to using numbers!

Grumpy

 

[tysfoot]

just round everything up and add a sqaure metre or two, depending how big the room is. that way it gives your more tiles than you need and you earn an extra m2 for nothing. kill two birds with one stone

 

[IvegotsTILE]

Having Capital Letters At The Beginning Of Every Word Is Confusing Enough For Me Mick,It Takes Ages Why Do You Do It?

 

[smokie899]

did not know i was so intelligent lol. young man with oul head, that is how i was taught seems and looks insane but when you verbaly say it takes about 6 seconds and sounds a hell of a lot less confusing. but i do use imperial and metric just depends who i am working with.

 

[CLAYS TILES]

Do you not use a metric tape Smokie? Seems a bit convoluted to me.

Grumpy

wouldn't it be easier to do wot smokie said but instead of dividing by 9 he does it by 11 and thats how to get m2?

i usually measure walls- top - bottom (say 8ft)
- left - right (say 8ft) = 64sq ft divide by 11 =5.8 m2


i usually do same with floors - wall - wall = ** divide by 11 = **m2

then to make sure you have enough tiles round up the m2 or add an extra m2 on to quote, hey presto plenty of tiles for everyone! works for me!!:hurray:

 

[CJ]

Smokie............Are you older than Gazza

 

[wayne]

why bother dividing by anything measure height x width then multiply to get sqm. add all walls together then add 10%